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I hope Aaron and Tom roll. I think they are decent people but just surronded themselves with low life's. There is no honor in protecting the parasites who leached off both of you for years who more than likely have turned their backs on you now if that is the case.

Cut your best deal guys! The last one to make a deal usually ends up with the most time.

I believe the citizens would be better served by an ethics opinion, opinion from the legislative auditor or state attorney general instead of lawyers that either work for the board or represent the person that is being accused.

In almost every case of litigation there are 2 lawyers on opposite sides who both think they are right according to the law. The Board should seek an outside opinion and go from there.

Could it be this line of thinking that was the cause of many board members being shown the door?

What gives the attorney's named the right to make the call through advising their clients to decide on whether or not the law was broken or funds were mispent?

In my opinion this equates to me robbing a bank and my personal attorney deciding whether or not I actually should be prosecuted.

Mr. Floyd are you grand standing? Usually when someone breaks the law you call 911 or ask the appropriate investigative agency to look into it. Has this been done yet? Usually when someone breaks the law it doesnt seem right to have to have a majority vote of a board to report the infraction.

Villio worked in Connick's office and then landed a cushion job at juvenile services with the Broussard group. Connick then endorsed Rowan over Villio in the last judges race but she was endorsed by the Broussard/ Wilkinson machine. After losing she shows back up in a cushion job in code enforcement with a hiked salary. After the scandal she then runs to the other side to get Normand's endorsement for yet another judges race. After her loss where will she show up? Sherriff please do not give her another cushion job that happens to be in your office. If her history says anything this is my prediction of the future.

The Sherriff's ad's were disgusting in my opinion. It appeared that he was so desperate in the ad's as the election day neared.

I'm glad the voters sent the right message to them all. Why he would tie himself to a person that is associated with the Broussard scandal is beyond me. Perhaps he should focus on putting the killers in jail that are roaming out streets now and stop paying with politics and TV stars. I hope the voters get rid of him in his next election.

The votes have shown one power hungry politician what they think of his endorsement. Now maybe they can show the other one that likes to get on TV to endorse what they think of his endorsement and the KASS connection?

If you want more of the same then keep voting for who they tell you to vote for.

Hey council I think you all may be next. The voters promised it to you now lets see how it pans out at your next elections. The parish president race should be fun to see.

63% in the primary said NO to Villio with Normand's endorsement. 52% in a run off with low turn out said the same thing after the winning candidate attacked Klotz in the primary with his campaign cards. Klotz voters still saw the need to not have Villio on the bench. Imagine a new Jefferson Parish without the power hungry political machines.

Mr. Theriot and council your cuts should not be reducing employees that serve us. If that is what is needed I'm all for it but start in your own office and staff first please.

You all have yet to answer why we need:

2 Deputy COO's with their staff
5 or 6 CAA's and their staff

along with:

Council aides making almost as much if not more than the part time council person elected to office? Who knows how many more are appointed and paid in each council persons office?

Why don't you get rid of the top heavy adminstrative staff? You have department directors who can report directly to 1 Deputy CAO who can report to the parish president. Why do we need so many others in the adminstrative staff in the tree shown? There is no excuse for this and it is costing us well over a million or year if not more for it to continue.

You all have allowed this to happen or continue so please do not try to run in a few months by claiming to be responsible watchers of the parish coffers. If you know we are in financial trouble how do any of you justify paying at will employees over a million a year ? Their salary and benefit cost accounts for more than half of the current short fall thus far this year?

http://www.jeffparish.net/index.cfm?DocID=8

Look above at the link. We have department directors answering to a CAA who then answers to a COO who answers to another COO who answers to the parish president. WHY?

Exactly what does the council aid do? When I call my council person I expect to possibly leave a message with a secretary and I expect the person I vote for to call me back. If the aid is going to do the councilman's work then why do we need the councilman? If the councilman is doing their job then why do we need the aid?

Instead of not hiring five 20,000.00 a year employees to save 100,000 I would prefer you get rid of 1 CAA and make the department director get off their lazy butt and go see the COO to report what is going on with their department. There is no reason you need a middleman. I highly suspect that any one of the 20,000 a year employees you would hire can work circles around the CAA you get rid of.

Once again the council we elected approved this and now claims they had no knowledge.

I have said it before and will say it again. It is your jobs to know slimebags. We elect you to do your own homework instead of relying on others who may have alterior motives. Did you notice a few months ago when the council in new orleans struck things from the proposed budget by the mayor? They did this because they did not agree with certain expenses. See! You do not have to follow a parish president like a sheep . It is ok to buck the system. Is it not? Were you scared if you buck the system they will get rid of you politically? Why have you followed like sheep? Who were you serving when you voted in favor of this contract? Please do not say you were representing us. Either you did not do your homework like we elected you to do or you knew it and did not have the guts to step up. Either way you are gone come election time. We will not tolerate this from any of you.

I'm a saints fan but come on, did they really make a public statement that they are hoping a surge in saints superbowl merchandise is enough to balance the budget? Talk about a gamble and wish there since we are at once in a lifetime with that. I cannot wait until the upcoming election for parish president and subsequent council elections to get rid of all of you bums. Maybe you can all rely on a saints superbowl crowd surge to make your next election pan out for you?

I wonder what what you will plan to take away from the hard working already underpaid employees of the parish to save your butts this time?

You can save by abolishing the Deputy CAA job, all CAA's and let the directors report to one CAO who reports to the parish president. Then get rid of the council aides. When I call any councilman/ woman I get a secretary who says the councilman is out and so is their aide. Why can't the secretaries take a message for the councilman who can call me back and do the job they ran and were elected to do? I do not need an aide to call me back who is doing the job I elected the councilman to do. These aides are making from 70,000 plus a year all the way to the 90,000's or more.

Next get rid of the be nothing in life code enforcement rangers so they can stop harassing citizens. Maybe send them to cut the grass that Ramelli does not cut along the canals before they tell citizens that the weeds popped up a little too high. I think we have just saved well over 2 million in wages and benefits with the suggested cuts I listed.

And while we are on the subject can we check the legal status of employees working for parish under contract such as Ramelli? I'm sure the CAA's, rangers and a few others may need the work if you fire them.

Lets see how much they are willing to cut when the suggestion is they do it in their office.

"Last month, Mr. Theriot found that a fake paralegal position in the parish attorney's office had been used to artificially boost the salary of Karen Parker, who, until October, was Mr. Broussard's wife. Ms. Parker lacked the legal certification to be a paralegal but was receiving the job's $65,000 salary anyway. In reality, she was working in the security department at a job that paid at least $22,000 less".

Are we really supposed to think she was the only one?

I know it is not every day that a woman in her 40's looks for a sugar daddy type in his 60's or a "lady" seeks favors from her boss through means other than work. I certainly agree that I do not know the details of Mr. Broussard's relationship with Ms. Parker and will not suggest what the facts are. I can though connect the dots and add together what it appear or looks like with a general sterotype.

As a citizen this relationship appears to me nothing more than a prositution type arrangement paid for by the citizens of Jefferson Parish using tax dollars to give overpaid salaries in exchange for a romantic relationship. This or perhaps just a perk of the relationship.

All of this was rubber stamped by the parish attorney and the council by knowing about it and not doing anything or not paying attention that should have been obvious to all. They all either knew or should have known what was going on and have failed us in their duty to be the check and balance system.

There have been posts made here suggesting that there are over paid secretaries for many in the parish adminstration and their staff who just so happen act as the office call girls but their job descriptions shows a well paid secretary. Some posters have gone so far to to make posts calling them by ther actual name.

If this is in fact true there needs to be more house cleaning then just a slap on the wrist Mr. Theriot.

There has still been no explanation by the admintration and council for the absorbent salaries and the need for the council aides and CAO's and CAA's and their staff. This is costing us more than a million a year in salary and benefits for at will employees where records show that most if not all gave campaign contributions to their boss at the time. This gives the appearance that they bought their jobs and are paid higher than most public servants for doing so.

Mr. Theriot if you want to start restoring trust clean the buidling out and start over. Abolish most if not all of these at will jobs and lets not do a mere name change at the same salary. Until then I as I'm sure others will view this as more of the same.

If each department has a director what is wrong with 1 CAO maybe 2 at most and having the directors report to them? There were posts made that you Mr. Theriot are the only one who can act as CAO so maybe you shoul dhave 1 or 2 CAA's.

Why do we need 2 CAO's and 5 or 6 CAA's then directors and their assitants in each department. This is top heavy. At most their should be the directors that answer to the 2 CAO's who report to you.

TRIM the fat in what is now your staff and then we can talk about restoring public trust.

I think most in the parish attorney's office including her should be fired. If any of you were decent at what you do then why are you slurping down tax dollars in the public sector? I once was told that a lawyer who cannot make it on their own seeks safe haven in the public sector. After all of this I'm starting to question if this is not true?

What is even more fun to watch is the war that seems to be brewing between the old Eastbank/Kenner politics and the old Westbank politics. Other than Whitmer who has been forced out who came from the Westbank? The Eastbank cronies are the ones being tossed and that is fine by me. I cannot wait until the next parish president comes and cleans the rest of the garbage out of the building.

The problem is many are so used to being told who to support to make sure they keep their job that this has thrown a wrench in that process and now they do not know which butt to kiss. The result is inside fights that have been brewing for years.

This bicker back and forth and naming each other in the ongoing cat fight I must say is quite amusing.

And while you are firing people do not just stop at the 2 assistants. It is real nice of you to take that flea bag lap dog that followed Broussard from Kenner out of the building. How about getting rid of the rest of the CAA's and assistants including the council aides that combined make a million dollars a year in salary and benefits for their at will short work week efforts.

Here is a link to the people that or the administrative staff and you all can use the link above for salary to see what they make. They need to get rid of them all or at the very least cut the salary in half for all of them.

http://www.jeffparish.net/index.cfm?DocID=8

STILL WAITING FOR MY CALL COUNCIL. NOT ONE OF YOU HAVE CALLED ME TO EXPLAIN THESE SALARIES INCLUDING YOU OWN AIDES. NOT ONE!

This is a joke and a smoke and mirror trick. And the council is still sitting back watching.

If you are going to check into something then tell me WHY or HOW Clement Donelon is listed in Human Resources but handles employee discipline matters acting as a parish attorney? Why do we have a parish attorney if they are going to contract or give all off the legal work to others? How can Clement still run his own practice and work full time for the parish?

So how can he make 74,000 plus and still be at his office hadling cases in his private practice?

The better question is if the parish attoney cannot handle this then why did they not put this our for competitve bid? What makes Mr. Donelon so special and why is he not at the very least employes by the parish attorney?

Does it help that he is related to Jim Donelon the insurance commissioner and also having a Jefferson Parish court building named after another family member?

I hope JP voters do not fall for this smoke screen! Notice how none of the council or Theriot have said lets abolish all of these high dollar "at will jobs".

They want to make sure they are around to be filled with their *cough cough* friends and contributors.

The only way we can clean up Jefferson government is to get rid of all these slime balls come election time.

There is not 1 of them in office right now that I will ever vote for again for any office they run for including Young.

Over 1,000,000 a year in "at will" jobs for people who are appointed and many if not all contribute to the boses campaign fund. It is not only the staff of the parish president but also the council aides.

Notice the parish attorney whose name has been all over this thing is still there. Which councilman has demanded his ouster? His side job deemed him unable to perform his full time job for Jefferson Parish. Where is the outrage council? One slap on the wrist and all is ok? Which one if you have demanded the investigation of how his sister in law Cassagne got the job as head of West Jefferson Medical making 400,000 plus a year without any experience in the medical field? How did his other sister in law get the job for 90,000 plus as the council's clerk? Is it legit? Will it be investigated? Do you think we will forget? No I do not think you deserve your salary or the discretionary raise you got so yes give it back NOW.

When this is all over with this group we will still have them giving high paying "at will jobs" to people who donate to their camapign without any qualifications for the jobs they are appointed to unless we get rid of this bunch.

Just because he was not charged with a crime does not mean the deal was legit. It means that it stunk enough to be investigated and they could not prove enough to charge him or convict him. Maybe it was because his high ranking political friends saw to it that he wasnt? Who knows? The old saying goes you are what you surrond yourself with.

If this isnt enough to prove guilt it should be enough for us to want to vote out the people he dealt with and associated with. I'm glad to know that he was close to Georges as it is one person I will not be supporting for anything including Mayor of New Orleans. Sheng is also done in my book and the same now applies to Martiny. He gave to John Young and a bunch of the others. My voting list is easy. I will NOT be voting for anyone who took a campaign contribution from this guy as you are what you surrond yourself with. Great to know that he was involved in an Edwards administration state employee insurance deal and is still at it here in Jefferson with the same thing. Speaks volumes for me let me tell you.

Check her last campaign records and it shows where she comes from. A true Broussard crony in my opinion.

This is the same "lady" and I use the term very loose, that was buying insurance through Whitmer. She just so happened to have a high paying job with juvenile services then took a leave of abscence to run for judge. After losing the race she lost and then came back as director of code enforcement making well over 100,000 a year without any experience in code enforcement. This took place under the Broussard/Whitmer administration.

I do not know the other candidate but will not be voting Villio for anything. The last thing we need is another crony or "favor" for job or other benefit type as a judge.

OK councilman! You do not cast a vote in favor of something before getting "full disclosure" of "who" is involved in the first place. What your statement means to me is you didnt do your homework and now that this may come up you want to blow the lid off if it so the people will not realize you failed to do your job before you voted for it.

And just another on my my guesses or speculation that Roberts wants to keep the fight going with Young to muddy him up so the focus can be taken off of Capella.

I say we get rid off all 7 of you. You all have failed to do your jobs and this contract is just one more example of it. The better question would be why were you all in such a hurry to vote in favor of this contract before getting "full disclosure"? Who pulled your puppet string? These cameras have been running for 3 years or so and you just woke up recently and decided to force full disclosure now that everyone is watching because of the Whitmer scandal? Where was your bright idea prior to allowing the contract in the first place. I guess it is just a co-inky-dink that a local judges wife happens to work for the company?

I cannot wait for this all to come down there will be so many vacant offices in Jefferson Parish we are going to have to beg people to run.

You see how arrognat they are. First they deny even recognizing what they did as a problem. Do you all remember their comments and response to the accusations that they should not have done this and broke the law. Why should we as citizens have to point out the law to them.

What is even worse is our legal expert parish attorney sat by and let it happen with a grin from ear to ear. If it violates law he either doesnt know his job or did not care. Worse than that thier golden boy Theriot who is supposed to be the know all and king of ethics and ethics laws
took the appointment knowing what happened. What does it say about him? That alone is enough to discredit him and the appearance they try to portray him with as understadning the law. I mean after all he ran the legislative auditors office as we were told and was the reason we were given by the dirty 6 that he was so great. Remember we get a parish president and inspector general all in one? He is so great that he did not know the law was broken with his first official act as parish president which was taking the oath to the office. ARROGANT MORONS I TELL YOU!

Then they are so arrognat to say they want to get it over as if it is no big deal. Just a blip on the radar screen of doing business as usual for this bunch.

The article even seems to suggest that they see it as just a small error that they have to be bothered with public input by law and plan to keep Theriot no matter what the public says. What an insult to the citizens of Jefferson Parish.